ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,634, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Fleet metrics analytics reporting system" was invented by Alvin Wu (Woodridge, Ill.), Muhammad Ali Akhtar (Oakland, Calif.), Nishant Raman (San Francisco), Jevon Yeoh (San Francisco), Saranyu Phusit (London), Joanne Wang (Los Gatos, Calif.), Benjamin Chang (Oakland, Calif.), Katherine Lee (Fremont, Calif.) and Jennifer Julia Zhang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analytics reporting system to perform operations that include: aggregating sensor data collected from a plurality of sensor devices within a database, the sensor data comprising a set of val...